Alf Cooper

[…] I believe the, the local working ladies used, used to come round at lunchtimecouldn’t they?Oh no. A thing that struck me as a very, very, as a trade unionist talk about Women’s Lib. I knew what would happen when Women’s Lib started getting off because the women, well, the post girls and negati[…]

Roy Fowler

[…]entualities and it would be lovely to have them as a matter of record. So I then wrote, having thought about it a bit I then wrote an article for the union, it was ACT in those days, for the union journal which was called, in fact Sue’s just found a copy Don’t Let The Incinerator Claim Our Golden Ag[…]

Brian Shemmings

[…]sp;of this recording is vested in the Ac t t history project. Brian Schilling's union organizer interviewer Sid go with Alan Lawson recorded on the 4th of December&n[…]

Anne V Coates

[…]ted to live there, because I had always thought I did, and, and then stay. And as soon as I was working there, I realised, unlike England, there were union and non-union movies. So I couldn’t get into the union. Paramount had been trying for some time to get me in the union there, and couldn’t. But […]

Daphne Ancell

[…]s also,she‟d had TB and she hadn‟t worked for some, all the time I wasn‟t working she hadn‟t.She was also a member of ours at one time.Yes, she was a union member as well.A great union member.And do you remember her coming round with this advertisement, she said „how about trying for this‟? She[…]

Sidney Cole

[…]armed person in the forces you needed around 13 or 14 people in civilian life as a back up to that. Partly, no largely, because of the efforts of the union the authorities didn't make the mistake that they made in the First World War which was virtually to kill the British film industry which had be[…]

sidney-cole-transcript-1987

[…] that. Partly, no largely, because of the efforts of the union the authorities didn't make the mistake that they made […]

Kitty Marshall (Hermges)

[…]Page 7Kitty Marshall Page 8Yes, I joined it when I got to London, I might have got to London in ’42, you see.It was ’43 you joined the union.Well according to my card it’s ’42.You see Big Brother’s been checking on you. Or they’ve got their records wrong, they do.[laughter] Not for th[…]

Gerald Chambers

[…] Zealand equity.John P Hamilton  12:36  What did you do with a broom? We all know the answer to that. So you joined equity your first trade unionGerald Chambers  12:45  was in was in was in New Zealand as an actor, as an actor. And I still have my card signed by a Mr. Jacques Fle[…]
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